09/09/2024
🇬🇧 Who is the Pierino from the jokes?
Pierino is the funny protagonist of many Italian jokes, and we all know him, but where does he come from?
Few people know that Pierino is from Milan. His character was created in the early 1900s by the illustrator Antonio Rubino. Pierino first appeared in the second issue of the “Corriere dei Piccoli” on January 3, 1909.
The Corriere dei Piccoli, created by Corriere della Sera, was the first weekly magazine of “illustrated stories in color” (the word “comic” didn’t exist yet). The purpose of Corrierino was to spread knowledge to children in a fun and carefree way.
Pierino was drawn with black bobbed hair and eccentric clothes. His family belonged to the upper-middle class, the privileged audience of the Corriere.
Over the years, Pierino has become more deeply rooted in Italian tradition, so much so that even today, he remains the undisputed protagonist of our jokes.
